I read this as a young girl, & it definitely gave me a perspective on WWII that I never would have learned in school. They didn't teach us about the Holocaust. This book touched me & has always made me wonder how a few evil people could be so completely destructive & kill so many innocent lives.

Anne Frank is the polar opposite of the Third Reich. She shows you faith in humanity when in reality, she should have had none.

The best, most well known account of life for Jews during WWII in Holland. The family goes into hiding in 1942 and lives in two floors above a warehouse in Amsterdam. They can never go outside and rely completely on the support of friends. Ann goes from age 13 to 15 in the book. In the midst of the fear and tension of being in hiding, Ann is experiencing the emotional roller coaster of growing up. Very powerful and very moving.

This is the version I read as a kid (ca. 1990). But with my kids, I'll read "The Definitive Version."

Read an earlier edition ca. 1990, then read definitive version ca. 1995.

I feel sorry for Anne and her family and all of the Jewish who had become victim of the Nazi cruelty.

Anne is a 13 cheerful girl before they move to the secret Annex bulding in 1942. Anne quite popular in her school, because she was pretty, smart and her smile was very sweet. She was Jewish and at that time The Jews become Inferior. Jews were ban for public facility.

" After May 1940 the good times were few and far between: first there was the war, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews. Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees: Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn in their bicycles; Jews were forbidden to use street-cars; Jews were forbidden to ride in cars, even their own; Jews were required to do their shopping between 3 and 5 P.M.; Jews were required to frequent only Jewish-owned barbershops and beauty parlors; Jews were forbidden to be out on the streets between 8 P.M. and 6 A.M.; Jews were forbidden to attend theaters, movies or any other forms of entertainment; Jews were forbidden to use swimming pools, tennis courts, hockey fields or any other athletic fields; Jews were forbidden to go rowing; Jews were forbidden to take part in any athletic activity in public; Jews were forbidden to sit in their gardens or those of their friends after 8 P.M.; Jews were forbidden to visit Christians in their homes; Jews were required to attend Jewish schools, etc. You couldn’t do this and you couldn’t do that, but life went on. Jacque always said to me, “I don’t dare do anything anymore, ‘cause I’m afraid it’s not allowed."

U could see how hard the Jewish lived at that time. But it was become worse when Nazi Hitler decided to demolish all of the Jewish.

Ann's family started packing and left their house the the hiding place in Annex. They were 7 people and the first... in the small office building, and become 8 at the end.

Ann lived there for 2 years.. she started to write her diary, and she named it Kitty. She wrote about their life there, about lack of food, about the terrific feeling wherever they will caught, she also told about her first time got period. And finally she fell in love to Peter Van Deen, one of boy who had hiding with her.

I could imagine how hard her life is .. whenever the invasion came they started to trembling and terrified, anytime they could died by the bombed or got caught.
Ann also told about her dream to become a journalist ot a writer. And she wished her diary will be published . Well, her dream to be journalist isnt fullfilled. But her dream to become a famous writer and published her diary become true.

Her last written on her diary was on 1 august 1944, and when 4 August 1944 , the 8 of them become caught by the police, because someone had betrayed them and told about their hiding place.
Sad ending of Ann Life. The only survivor is only Otto Frank, her father.

I wish i could someday going to Amsterdam and visit The Museum of Anne Frank.

I am so grateful i live now in a world of peaceful and have the human right. I hate war... i wish there's no more of war forever...